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| Advanced Air Defence Missile |
Interceptor capability is required for the defence of land from the attack of incoming missiles, especially ICBM (InterContinental Ballistic Missiles), which otherwise will create so much destruction in the land.
According to the reports, DRDO's Air Defence Missile
(AAD-05) successfully hit the ballistic missile (modified Prithvi missile
mimicking the ballistic missile) and destroyed it at a height of 15kms near
Wheelers Island. During the flight on-board computer guided the missile and
on-board radio frequency seeker identified the target system. Test was success
as the missile hit the target.
Still we have to remember about the controversies related
to the success rate of PATRIOT system during the Operation Desert Storm (First
Gulf War), even thought it showed better success rates during Operation Iraqi
Freedom (Second Gulf War). In many cases the speed of ICBM are too much for a tactical
ABM (Anti Ballistic Missiles)'s. What we have to look forward is to achieve the
capabilities of Russian A-135 systems or US Ground Based Mid-Course Defence (GMD).
This is certainly a good step in the way to achieve and
deploy full Air Defence System for our cities. DRDO's achievement made us the
fifth country in the world to have these capabilities.
Sajeev.
Photo Courtesy: Wikipedia - Picture is for the first test of AAD on 6th Dec 2007
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Good going DRDO but anyway we must remember the biggest room in this world is the room for improvement. We are proud to have successfully test fired Agni-5 and now along with the missile programme ,we need to focus on the missile shields too, especially for our metros.
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